More beauty within loss.
With a running jump, our hero grabs onto an overhanging bar and spins himself upwards onto the next floor.
How sad that the one piece of stunt work in Street Angel is nearly lost to deterioration.
How lucky we are to experience it with the glow of disintegration that gives the feat an other-worldly quality:
4 comments:
Wow. I just love the utter strangeness of this succession of images.
Guy,
I'm really happy that this was left in the film. There are many dead spots where the screen cuts to black.
I'm always impressed by the randomness of deterioration. No amount of Photoshop could produce this kind of work.
Think you could do this with woodcuts? If anyone could, it'd be you.
That's a good question, shahn. The closest I've ever come to even considering working outside the box is when I thought about doing a woodcut of Boris Karloff in the make-up chair for Frankenstein, done up as the Monster, shirtless with cigarette in hand. The Monster is never shown shirtless in the films, and the closest he came to a cigarette was the cheroots he puffed with the old blind hermit and Pretorius ("Smoke good"). I could do a woodcut of an image being affected by decasia, but my prints are so time-consuming and labor-intensive that I really have to pick and choose. The key word here is randomness, the making of woodcuts for my site is anything but, but I'm interested in how you might think otherwise.
Well, it would be a radical departure from your usual stunning subjects. I think the major forms in these frames aren't perhaps strong enough to reproduce with clarity. I was thinking the beautiful texture created by the erosion matches the detailed work in your woodcuts.
Maybe one day the right image will present itself.
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